Smart City Infrastructure Monitoring Using LIDAR Technologies

Over the past few years, several book and development authorities across the world have started the development and support of intelligent city platforms in terms of monitoring and controlling. The infrastructure network is one of the primary city subsystems. This book discusses the intelligent infrastructure monitoring platform in the sense of geospatial monitoring, which highlights the updated geographical location (XYZ) represented in a 3D surface model of the area of interest. The mobile laser-based survey technology adopted for monitoring the infrastructure networks. The data analysis of terrestrial LIDAR identified as more sophisticated methodology to utilize it in the infrastructure data collection. The book also discusses an extraction mathematical method for identifying the most efficient system ground speed to be illustrated during the terrestrial LIDAR missions for any kind of polyethylene pipelines/cables. The resulted re-planning is forming a more intelligent infrastructure geospatial monitoring platform. The new method of infrastructure data updates will support of developing more sophisticated smart city concept.